Git tip: checkout from github via cygwin

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Mar 052010
 
Q In trying to checkout a repository from github using cygwin (unix like command line interface for windows), according to the github help is do a ssh git@github.com. However, I got a “Permission denied (publickey)”.
A The missing ingredient for me was that cygwin uses the HOME environment variable and this was not set on my machine. I was then able to do a

    git clone git@github.com:<github repository>.